Garment-hook.



H. GRANT.

GARMENT HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 4, 1900.

1,029,989, Patented June 18, 1912.

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UTED STATES HARRIOTT GRANT, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE DE LONG HOOK & EYE COMPANY, OF PHILADELlI-IIA, PENNSYLVANIAQA CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

GARMENT-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 18, 1912.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRIOTT GRANT, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment Hooks, of'which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object the production of a garment-hook which may be readily and securely fastened in position, and when in use, prevents gaping of the garment provided therewith; and it consists in the novel combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawing in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing my garment-hook stitched at the bight of the hook to a piece of material, and the guard for protecting the stitching, the material and stitchingbeing shown in dotted lines. Figs. 2, 3 and 4: are, respectively, top plan, side elevation and end elevation of my gar- -ment-hook illustrating the thread-engagmg means at the bight of the hook the thread guard being omitted.

My hook may cooperate with any other fastening member as an eye, and is formed with thread-engaging means at the bight of the hook, and with a thread-guard arraged in the loop of the hook at the rear of said means. I

As illustrated, this hook is formed of a single piece of wire bent to form the shankportions 1, 1, the eyes 2 at the free ends of the shank portions, and the bill 8. The

bill 3 is substantially parallel to the shank portions 1, 1, and the wires of said hook at the bight thereof are bent preferably upwardly and inwardly at substantially a right angle to the corresponding shankportion 1, and cross or intersect at 4:, forming the thread-engaging means at the bight of the hook.

As seen in Fig. 1, one of the endportions of the wire forming my book, forms one of the eyes 2, and the other end-portion 5 is bent longitudinally forwardly between the shank-portions 1, 1, the extremity 6 of said end-portion 5 being disposed in proximity to the bight of the hook, and bent at an angle to the shank-portions 1, 1 into and across the loop or eye passage of the hook,

thereby forming a thread-guard at the rear of the intersection L.

Thus my hook is formed with a plurality of bends located at different points longitudinally thereof and extending from the shank to the bill, the innermost bend, formed by the extremity 6 of the end portion 5, serving to engage an eye and receive the strain of the eye in the normal operation of the hook, and the outer bends, formed at the bight of the hook, serving as means by which a shank-securing thread may be attached.

The wires at the intersection 4 present a convenient fastening means, at the forward end of the hook, which may be secured to a piece of cloth or other material 7 upon which the hook is used, by a suitable stitching 8; and the guard 6 protects the stitching 8 from contact with the eye used in connection with my hook. This end portion 5 is usually provided, also with a hump 9 for preventing accidental disengagement of the hook from the eye or other fastening member. The rear end of the hook is se-. cured in the ordinary manner by stitching '8 engaging the eyes 2.

The construct-ion and operation of my hook will now be readily understood upon reference to the foregoing description and the accompanying drawing.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As a new article of manufacture, a garment-hook formed of wire bent to form thread-engaging means at the bight of the hook, and a thread-guard arranged in the loop of the hook at the rear of said means,

giubstantially as and for the purpose speci- 2. As a new article of manufacture, a garment-hook formed of a single piece of wire andhaving thread-engaging means at the bight-of the hook, an end-portion of the wire being bent forwardly between the per tions of said wireforming the shank-portions of the hook, and the extremity of said end-portion being disposed in proximity to the bight of the hook and being bent at an angle to said shank-portions to project into and across the loop of the hook andthereby form a thread-guard at the rear of the thread-engaging means, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3.-A garment hook embodying a shank and a bill, and a plurality of bends existing at difierent points longitudinally of the structure and extending from said shank to said bill, the innermost bend serving to engage an eye and being in the normal operation of the hook impassable to said eye, and an inner and outer bend adapted to confine in position a shank securing thread passed between them.

4. A garment hook having a shank and a bill existing in approximately parallel planes, and having an eye passage between them, a strain receivingbend extending across the distant end of said eye passage, and impassable to an eye entering said passage, and a member extending approximately perpendicularl'y to the planes of the shank and bill, and arranged at a point longitudinally of the hook a sutlicient distance to the front of said bend to afford space between itself and said bend f0 a shank securing stitch, substantially as set forth.

5. A garment hook having a shank and a bill, existing in approximately parallel planes, and having an eye passage between them, a strain receiving bend extending across the distant end of said eye passage and impassable to an eye entered in said passage, and a member extending approximately perpendicularly to the planes of the shank and bill, and arranged at a point a sufficient distance, longitudinally of the hook, to the front of said bend to afford space between itself and said bendfor a shanksecuring stitch, the respective ends of said last named member merging into the hook structure.

6. A wire garment hook having a shank and a bill, arranged to form an eye passage between them, a bend connective or continuous of said shanr and bill, and a tongue wire member extending along the shank and having a bend or portion extending from the shank to the bill and so disposed as to be out of line, viewed from the side of the hook, with the bend first referred to, the innermost of said bends extending across the distant end of said eye passage and being impassable to an eye entered in said passage, and the space between said bends constituting a shank securing stitch opening or seat, substantially as set forth.

7. A wire garment hook comprising a shank formed of two wire lengths, a bill formed of two wire lengths, said shank and bill existing in approximately parallel planes, bends connective of the wire lengths of the shank and those of thebill, an additional member existing in part in proximity to the members of the shank and in part in proximity to the members of the bill, and embodying a strain receiving bend extending across an eye passage between the shank and bill which bend exists at a point closer to the rear end of the structure than are the bends first referred to,and is impassable in the normal operation of the parts to an eye entering said passage, substantially as set forth.

8. A wire garment hook comprising a shank formed of two wire lengths, a bill formed.

of two wire lengths, said shank and bill exnective of said shank and bill members re-' spectively, a member extending along the shank to a point near the outer portion of the latter and thence across the eye passage formed between the shank and bill, to a point between the two bill members referred to, the bend of the member last referred to being closer to the rear end of the hook than are the bends first referred to, and constituting a strain receiving bend to engage the complemental member of the fastening, and also serving to preventv the sliding rearwardly of a shank securing stitch engaged with the outer end portions of the shank members.

10. A garment hook having a shank anda bill arranged in approximately parallel planes, between which shank and bill extends an eye passage, a strain receiving member extending from the shank to the bill at the distant end of said passage,

which member is in the normal operation ofthe hook impassable to an eye entering said passage, and a shank securing stitch'open ing or seat arranged at the front end of' the hook beyond the eye passage, the member or members forming or defining which opening or seat are arranged in 'a' plane approximately perpendicular with respect to the planes of the shank and bill.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 28th day of August, 1900.

.nannrorr GRANT. "I

' Vvitnessesz L. M. LANG, S. DAVIS.

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Washington, I). G. 

